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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Follow your guide
It looks like progress on the assistive technology front with Google's Project Guideline, "an artificial intelligence system designed to help blind and vision-impaired people to run races by themselves." Main point: It's "an attempt to give those people more...
Learning from the movers and “shapers”
It takes one to know one. I saw an article where Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, shared some things he learned from getting to know top movers and shakers like Elon Musk and Bill Gates.Main point: "Dalio often sees common threads in these leaders’...
Memorial to a Forgotten Astronaut
Via Instapundit and Parabolic Arc: From Mojave, it’s a drive of nearly 50 miles through the sagebrush and Joshua trees, around dry Koehn Lake, and through the old mining towns of Randsburg and Johannesburg before you reach the unmarked dirt road leading to the site. A...
Making Smarter Smart Homes
Via Science 2.0: CNN estimates that smart homes will grow from a $10 billion business this year to a $44 billion industry by 2017. It will happen because there will be no more thinking about Bluetooth or Wi-Fi or broadband, the smart home hub will eliminate the chaos....
Making Smarter Smart Homes
Via Science 2.0: CNN estimates that smart homes will grow from a $10 billion business this year to a $44 billion industry by 2017. It will happen because there will be no more thinking about Bluetooth or Wi-Fi or broadband, the smart home hub will eliminate the chaos....
IBM develops computer chip with a million ‘neurons’ that ‘functions like human brain’
Via Drudge and Mail Online: TrueNorth is the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own. It has one million ‘neurons’ and could cram the same power as a super computer into a circuit the size of a postage stamp. ...
IBM develops computer chip with a million ‘neurons’ that ‘functions like human brain’
Via Drudge and Mail Online: TrueNorth is the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own. It has one million ‘neurons’ and could cram the same power as a super computer into a circuit the size of a postage stamp. ...
Robots Will Take Over More Jobs Than They Create
Via Drudge and CBS Charlotte: 52 percent of respondents said that historically technology has ultimately created more jobs than it has displaced. They said people will find other forms of work that only human beings can perform; that the technological advances will...